DaMonte Grays

Move your energy-chair

Saving enrgy is the "it" activity today, more people searching for green and greener alternatives to produce the power necessary for all the gadgets and devices surrounding us. And if solar power is the most common method to replace the traditional electric energy, that doesn't mean it's the only one. Thus, kinetic energy is also rapidly gaining terrain. One of the latest concepts to exploit kinetic energy in order to produce electricity is the "Move Your Energy" kinetic energy-harnessing chair. The idea behind this concept design is quite simple. While reading a newspaper or celeb magazine, book, or whatever it is  that  people  feel  like  reding  at  a  certain  time,  most  have  a  habit  of  rocking  on  the  chair  on  which  they  sit.  Designer  Petr  Novak  has  designed  a  chair  to  harness  this habit  of  all  regular  book  and  magazine  readers.  A  kinematic  mechanism  is  integrated  in  the  chair  that  harnesses  every  movement  of  the  chair  and  converts  it  into  useful  enrgy.  This  energy  is either  stored  in  the  batteries  attached,  or  can  be  used  to  light  up  your  book  with  a  built  LED  lamp  that  is  powered  by  the  dynamo  beneath  the  seat.

Despite  the  fact  that  the  chair's  design  looks  very  interesting,  it  might  actually  be  a  bit  too  complex.  Keeping  in  mind  the  frequency  a  normal  reader  would  rock  his  chair,  it's  rather  unlikely  this  system  could  generate  an  appreciable  amount  of  energy.  Makeover,  there  are  still  certain  issues  to  be  elucidated,  such  as  the  way  this  chair's  fluctuating  motion  will  be  able  to  give  rise  to  non-flickering  light. 

However,  since  the  designer  didn't  offer  any  other  details  on  the  functioning  of  the  "  Move  Your  Energy"  rocking  chair,  it's  difficult  to  give  a  verdict  just  yet  on  whether  it  will  work  or  not.